In December 2008 CinemaAttic came to live. Its former founder opened a blog where reflections on the art of cinema were intended to be published. From then on CinemaAttic became A space for films and happenings.

In September 2009 CinemaAttic created, produced and organized the 1st Spanish short film festival in Edinburgh. Lasting fifteen days (26th September-11th October) included all kind of activities:

1. Spanishness and cinema. Eight-film season on Penelope Cruz & Javier Bardem including masterpieces such as Bigas Luna’s Jamón, jamón (1992), Castellito’s Non ti muovere (2004), or Amenabar’s The sea inside (2004). Hosted by Filmhouse Edinburgh, this retrospective offered an insight into Spanish society and a more-in-depth approach to the art of Cruz and Bardem through quality films that have shaped worldwide cinema in the past fifteen years.

2. Beyond a visual showcase reunited circa ninety Spanish short films from institutions like the ECAM, Freak Agency, Madrid en corto or Kimuak and included works by acclaimed filmmakers (Eduardo Chapero-Jackson, Coke Riobóo, Borja Cobeaga, Angel Loza,…) but also films by new talents such as Arturo ‘Chico’ Pereira, Alex Bikuna or Nelisa Alcalde. Divided in five categories (short documentaries, fiction, animation, new talents and music video) screenings took place in key venues such as the Wee Red Bar, Screen Academy of Scotland, Forest Café or the invaluable and now gone Roxy Art House.

3. The conference ‘The loss of Historical Memory in after-war Spain and its reconstruction by means of the visual arts’ was hosted by University of Edinburgh and carried on by Andrew Ginger from University of Stirling, Nigel Dennis and Bernard Bentley from University of Saint Andrews. At the end, Carla Subirana’s Nadar (2008) and Arturo Ruiz Serrano’s Paseo (2008) were screened and discussed.

4. Lucio(2007) by Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga was screened at the National Galleries of Scotland’s Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. The event included a Q&A round with the main protagonist and historical figure Lucio Urtubia himself. 

5. The photo exhibition The main tool by Spanish multi-artist Nelisa Alcalde.

In May 2010 CinemaAttic created, produced and organized Norman McLaren- Spanish animation today: converging identities? Made in collaboration with Andrew Ginger and lasting ten days (12th to 22nd of May 2010), the festival was built upon five different block of screenings that combined Norman’s McLaren’s masterpieces with landmarks from current Spanish short film animation. Besides the screenings, the festival included:
-  An approach to Spanish short film animation given by Spanish doctorate in Media Studies Maria Luisa Martinez Barnuevo and hosted by University of Stirling.
- The screening of El viaje de Said (2006) followed by Q&A round with filmmaker Coke Riobóo (Goya Awards Winner in 2007 for Best Short Film animation) hosted by the Roxy Art House Edinburgh.

In July 2010 CinemaAttic brought to Edinburgh Lorca and Surrealism. Made in collaboration with Tristana Media and hosted by the National Galleries of Scotland, the season included the screening of Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou (1929), Frederic Amat’s Viaje a la luna (1998) and a conference on Lorca given by professor Nigel Dennis. This event opened the wider exhibition Another World: Dalí, Magritte, Miró and the Surrealists.  

In October 2010 CinemaAttic was part of Hidden Door, a festival of collaboration across the arts made up of 40 bands, 60 artists, 20 filmmakers…At such event CinemaAttic curated Impossible journeys, a set of Spanish short films divided in three different blocks and including landmarks such as Juan Pablo Etcheverry’s Minotauromaquia (2004), Isabel Herguera’s La gallina ciega (2005), Arturo Pereira’s The way to Macondo (2009) or Juan Ibañez’s Shot (2010).  

In December 2010, made in partnership with the Akimbo Divine Dj’s, CinemaAttic raised some money for the fundraising project to save The Forest Café Edinburgh.

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